Technical Lead - Production

Job Duties

Under general supervision from the Production Manager,

• The Production Supervisor works in a multi-discipline Asset Operations Team to develop potentially large and challenging unconventional plays and mature oil and gas fields.
• Identifies innovative ways to apply HAL technology, service capability and expertise within the context of understanding the reservoir, production and facilities to design new, step-change field exploitation methodologies.
• Integral member of the multi-discipline Production Team comprised of a reservoir engineer, production geologist and field personnel team.
• Analyzes production history, well files, production equipment and decline curve analysis and nodal analysis of well performance to estimate remaining recoverable reserves, production and cost of upgrading equipment.
• Selects and implements production technology, service capability and expertise including completion systems comprised of tubing selection, perforating, sand control and fine migration, matrix stimulation, water control and hydraulic fracturing; artificial lift equipment comprised of sucker-rod lift, gas lift, electrical submersible pumps, subsurface hydraulic pumps, progressing-cavity pumps and plunger lift; real-time surveillance and monitoring systems and waterflooding and other enhanced recovery techniques.
• Uses decline curve analysis and nodal analysis to identify workovers or recompletions candidates and to select and upgrade production equipment.
• Focuses on maintaining and increasing daily production through optimizing well performance and field operations while controlling operating costs.
• Performs daily field operations including optimizing well behavior, production, water disposal, chemical injection and treatment, waterflood performance and artificial lift systems.
• Evaluates proposed modifications to equipment or to operating procedures to improve safety, efficiency and reliability of equipment and ensures all modifications meet statutory and Company standards.
• Develops and maintains good working relationships with Production Team through effective communication and teamwork. 

Qualifications

• A minimum of 15 years of relevant experience, with substantial hands-on production engineering.
• Undergraduate degree in Petroleum engineering, Geology, Geophysics or Applied sciences 
• Field development and production management experience working directly (preferred) or indirectly on a producing field for an oil & gas operator.
• Solid grounding in subsurface uncertainty assessment and risk management 
• Experience in Well Optimization, integrated production system optimization and production enhancement, particularly for mature fields.
• Strong exposure to well performance analysis, nodal analysis, flow assurance risks/mitigation, production system modeling & software.
• Experience working with artifitial lift systems (ESP, PCP, Gas lift, Rod pumps, etc.) 
• Experience executing surveillance programs as well as identifying, maturing and delivering well intevention, workover and recompletion opportunities.
• Exposure to mature or brownfield assets.
• Iraq/ Middle East/ N Africa  experience. 
• Experience working rotational in an emerging country with experience mentoring national employees. 
• Team leadership and Supervisory experience 
• Requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with geologists, engineers, contractors and asset teams to successfully execute projects from concept to operation; over time, incumbent will become very knowledgeable of HAL technologies and solutions experience together with the exploitation methodologies and technologies that other companies apply.